Hunt effect (color)
Appearance
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The Hunt effect or Luminance-on-colorfulness effect[1] comprises an increase in colorfulness of a color with increasing luminance. The effect was first described by RWG Hunt in 1952.[2]
Hunt noted that this effect occurs at low luminance levels. At higher luminance, he noted a hue shift of colors to be more blue with higher luminance, which is now known as the Bezold–Brücke effect. The Hunt effect is related to the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect, where a partially desaturated stimulus is seen to be brighter than fully saturated or achromatic stimuli.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pridmore, Ralph W.; Melgosa, Manuel (10 April 2015). "All Effects of Psychophysical Variables on Color Attributes: A Classification System". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0119024. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019024P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119024. PMC 4393130. PMID 25859845.
- ^ Hunt, R. W. G. (1 March 1952). "Light and Dark Adaptation and the Perception of Color*". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 42 (3): 190–199. doi:10.1364/JOSA.42.000190. PMID 14908745.